>> [background] good evening, everybody. I'd like to call the marana town council regular council meeting
to order. Roll call, please. >> mayor post? >> here. >> vice mayor ziegler? >> present.
>> councilmember cavanaugh? Here. >> councilmember comerford? >> here. >> councilmember kai?
>> present. >> councilmember murphy? >> present. >> councilmember officer? >> here. >> a quorum is present.
>> thank you. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence.
>>
>> please be seated.
approval of agenda? >> so moved.
>> we have a motion in a second. All those in favor? >> aye. >> aye.
>> motion passes. Call to the public. >> mr. Mayor, I have one speaker card for the call of the public?
>> okay. >> noah sunberg? >> hello, I'm noah sunberg.
I'm from sita, and I'd like to talk to you about your police chief and others being bad actors.
I want to know why your police chief, jeffrey pridgett was dishonest with the local media and the public when he said
that things that occurred that are in the report from marana on the sita police attack where the police chief attacked the man,
and the man was told, there was no probable cause and your chief said that isn't what was said,
and then the police report said that's exactly what was said. Why did your chief lie to us all? That's the first one.
secondly, I do appreciate mr. Vincent jenkins,
who was force for releasing the man who was attacked by our chief after six hours,
when it was proven that there was no probable cause that he did assault the police chief.
but I do wonder, why did he not include all the testimonies that were there? He got testimonies from the witnesses who were there and did not include them.
he also did not get testimonies from the vast majority of police officers that were all deer in the headlights seeing what our chief had done and didn't do anything.
why did your forces do a subpar investigation where our chief assaulted a man,
violated him, attacked him, and your guys came up with the wrong conclusion.
I understand that there's a fellowship among police officers, where they will protect themselves over
the righteousness of what's true and right and the public good and their oaths.
but I expect your chief of police and your police officers to honor their oath to the constitution and honor the law
and not lie and deceive the public or in their reports to protect another officer,
even if it's a horrible person like our chief nolan. I want you guys to have please the honor of the true,
not just protect the blue. Thank you. >> thank you.
>> mayor and council reports. Councilmember officer?
>> no report, mayor. >> councilmember murphy? >> no report.
>> councilmember kai? >> no report, mayor. >> councilmember cavanaugh? >> yeah, one quick report,
as you know, the chamber of commerce, and marana, had a nice little program to help get us out to
local restaurants to dine in local restaurants. Gave if you wanted to, you could fill out take a card to the restaurant,
and they would happily sign it. My wife and I participated in that. It was a great experience.
we were motivated, actually, to get out, not for the fine t-shirts that we were able to pick out,
to wear, with pride. But just to go get out and dine in some wonderful restaurants of marana.
that's all my report is, I say kudos to the marana chamber of commerce on this wonderful program they do and throughout july and august. Thank you.
>> thank you. Councilmember comerford? >> I have a couple. First. I want to say that officer,
murphy, post, and myself.
some of our wonderful staff went to the league of cities and towns,
and I think it was my 25th that I've been to.
I just want to say that it was nice being able to go with so much staff,
and it was nice to see that even after 25 years,
I'm still hearing new stuff and learning new stuff to bring home.
that was very enjoyable. The second thing was that, our deceased mayor,
our mayor durst was recognized at
the state parks and recreation conference for
the entire state of arizona and was recognized as the public official of the year.
that was really an honor. I'm so glad mr. Cavanaugh attended and mr.
officer attended and I attended. What a pleasure it was to be there and see, first of all,
what are people all do, and second of all him being recognized. Thank you, mayor.
>> thank you. Vice mayor? >> thank you, mr. Mayor. Planning and zoning.
I went to the planning and zoning meeting earlier, well, this last week.
carrie sylvan and her group were there,
and they're going to be doing our cascada project finally after, my goodness.
I don't know how many years. Of course, her team did a great job talking about cascada too,
and they, of course, are representing redpoint development,
and there will be some amendments to the specific plan. It's going to be a mixed use type development.
we're going to have offices, some housing, some loft style apartments, trails.
that will be coming up in the next couple of weeks.
we'll have to reacquaint yourself with that. Secondly, on I think it was the next day,
I went to marana insights. Well, who was there?
councilmember cavanaugh, there. Councilmember officer.
the bigger reason I went, jason, it wasn't for you. I'm sorry. We hear you all the time.
but we went to see heath. He's been with us, was with us for nine years as an intern of the ua,
and now he is the director of the county economic development, and 35-years-old.
it was interesting to hear his speech or his presentation and just how much those people do down there is incredible.
I don't know how they get it done, but it was nice to see heath. Thank you, mayor.
>> thank you, vice mayor. First thing I want to talk about is the first ever parents night out at the mark.
my grandchildren went to it and I have four grandchildren.
but three of them went to it. They had the time of their life.
I heard it was so very well done. They had to drag the youngest one out, screaming.
he's two. He had a great time. Thank you to parks for setting that up. That's awesome.
as everybody know, we finally got the rta across the a portion of the finish line,
we're going to go to the voters in march, and that is so very important to the town of marana.
if you have not had the opportunity to see a presentation on that,
we will hopefully be getting community presentations around,
and that's worth over $500 million to the town of marana.
that is going to be such a great program for the town,
we expect to get more road interchange, tangerine interchange, cortaro interchange,
tangerine will be finished to twin peaks and widening of ina.
then amongst many other projects around the southern arizona.
really important for marana,
that we get that across the finish line. The other thing that I wanted to comment on because
neither councilmember comerford nor council member kai will say anything.
but councilmember kai was awarded a local elected official distinguished award for 32 years of public service, 32 years.
[applause] thirty-two years of
doing things and working hard for the town of marana. Then councilmember comerford, was awarded with 24 years of public service.
[applause] I know both
of these individuals have really worked hard for the town of marana,
and I'm very proud to know both of them. I know the hard work they've put into our community,
and so I'm really proud of them. Thank you very much. Mr. Rozema.
>> mr. Mayor, vice mayor, and members of council,
I'm pleased to report that the council took just about every single one of the items that I was going to speak on today.
very little, single family residential date,
39 permits for the month of august, 53 last year for the month of august.
those numbers continue to stay at a pretty low rate for us.
you already hit on parents night out, which I heard was a smashing success.
I guess if we have to draw children out, they want to be with wayne barnett
and jim conroy more than they want to be with their parents. We're doing some good stuff.
the one thing that wasn't talked about here is national night out. That's a great event every year. This year.
it's going to be on friday, september 26, from five until nine at the crossroads at silverbell district park.
we're going to have our first responders there playing a little softball game. We used to play basketball,
but the pd kept beating the fire department year after year after year after year.
after a year. They switched to softball. But you could still go out there and have a good time watching the softball game.
the last thing is, if you want to know what's going on with musd and their growth and the schools that they're building,
and what they have in store, their long-term planning,
dr. Dan streeter was a guest on the real talk with the town podcast,
and he lays all that out for our community. That's all I have, mr. Mayor.
>> thank you, mr. Rozema. Item p1. >> item p1, relating to budget.
presentation of preliminary year end results, july-june for the town's general fund and
other selected major funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
>> mr. Klaitif? >> thank you, mr. Mayor, vice mayor, councilmembers.
on behalf of the finance department, I would like to present you with our fourth quarter or otherwise,
our year end preliminary financial results for some select funds.
as always, these results are not audited. They are preliminary and are subject to change as we close our books for the year,
which is what we do at this time of year every year. With that, though, we'll be brief,
but I will be happy to entertain any questions from anybody during or at the end of this brief presentation.
overall, looking at our revenues, we performed right where we expected to perform or better,
and in some cases, very much better than what we anticipated. The very much better is really our contracting sales tax.
our transportation fund, especially, that is allocated 75% of that particular sales tax,
has experienced record revenues for the year, and for previous years.
with that, our retail sales tax came in about where we expected in the general fund at just a few hundred thousand over the amount that we expected.
that would be included in the results for our general fund. >> what was that amount, your honor?
>> 101% of budget. >> I know what was? >> amount for the general fund.
we'll be happy to navigate to that. This interactive tool that we are using to,.
>> forty-one million. >> will be available. >> forty-three? >> overall amount for sales tax is 48.3 million.
specifically our retail sales tax came in at 25.8 million.
with that result, going back to our summary screen.
our hurf revenues came in as expected with the overage really being related to some of our investment returns and
some third party contributions for projects to be performed on their behalf as part
of striving to be sure to be as efficient as possible when we do some of these road projects.
our bed tax fund also came in better than we anticipated.
our health and sales tax fund, that as you all are aware, is there to help pay for the now completed and very successful mark,
as was mentioned earlier, came in also just slightly above expectations and continues to
experience on a monthly basis over $600,000 in revenues.
>> we are starting to make those debt service payments.
we have already made one this last july and we will continue to do so with
a plan as council directed us to pay that debt off as early as possible.
we're still estimating to be able to do that in the next 5-7 years
depending on what those returns are through the sales tax collected for this purpose.
our water funds and water reclamation funds have also came in as we anticipated,
as has the airport fund. The airport fund is going to be collecting slightly higher revenues due to
the result of a renegotiated agreement that council approved earlier this year.
that is reflected in these results and while it is showing low now,
this is normal for this time of year for this presentation. As we close out the year and we close out a lot of
the grant funding associated with that particular operation, we do an entry to transfer any shortfalls as
budgeted and anticipated from the general fund to the airport fund.
that will be happening in the next month to month and a half by the time we get to close the fund.
all of our expenses also came in below or as anticipated.
of note this year, I would like to point out that we are now done with the house and sales tax fund.
you will notice that we spent $35 million, that pretty much closes out the majority of
the expenses that we have related to the construction and completion of the mark.
there are a few punch list items, but we do not expect those to be significant and we do expect this project to
come in within budget as directed and approved by council.
on time and on budget, as mr. Conroy and mr. Barnett have stated in the past.
the other item that is of note that I would like to point out
is council's direction approval and implementation by staff to make the second down payment of over $13 million to our psprs pension plan.
you will recall almost three years ago we made an initial payment of six million.
we had about 13.6 million identified when we were putting together the budget of
unpaid pension liabilities and we did that on july 1 of 2024.
that is included in the expenses that we see here.
we are now eagerly anticipating the actuarial reports that will come out in december of this year to
see what the impact has been for that down payment that we made more than a year ago and see where that
allows us to be and we're hoping that we will be fully funded. But as you already know,
there's a lot of factors that go into those calculations by the actuaries, but we should be in really good shape when we see that report.
with that, I will conclude my presentation, but will be happy to answer any questions.
>> we have any questions? Thank you very much.
>> actually, may I for one second? >> yeah. >> the presentation was concluded by neglected to do one more thing.
the one more thing was the year end general fund balance.
it really has not changed very much from an earlier estimate that you saw,
but I would be remiss if I walked away and this is something that is attached to the agenda item tonight.
we do expect to end next fiscal year at about 87.6 million.
that is a little bit higher than it was when we presented to you a few months ago as part of
the budget presentations for the fiscal year and this is really the result of higher than anticipated revenues,
specifically some of our interest earnings and also some of the mark revenues that we had not budgeted in this cycle.
beyond that, though, we are in very good shape at
the same time as we continue to move into this year and next year's budget we will be discussing how to
utilize a lot of these available funds in future projects.
with that, now I mean it, I do conclude my presentation. >> question.
>> councilmember cavanaugh. >> yes. Mr. Klaitif says,
on the page 2 under the revenues, there's a category, other.
>> yes, sir. >> from five million, 900,000-11 million up 199%.
can you clarify that for us? >> one moment. Mr. Mayor,
vice mayor, councilmember cavanaugh. You are looking, if I may navigate to it,
at the category, other. The category, other,
if we drill into it, has a number of revenues in it. Some of it are admin revenues,
overhead that we collect from other areas, it includes courts fines and fees,
which came in as anticipated. A lot of the overage that we have here though is related to investment income.
the rates and our investments, which really have a lot to do with the rates in the market,
we are limited to what we can invest. Most of our investments are in fixed assets.
a lot of it are treasury agency funds. Those particular rates, as you are likely aware,
have stayed higher than anybody anticipated throughout the year.
in a way, what some argue is difficult for the economy has been good for our returns.
as we continue to invest that money that we had, the cash that we had, we achieved better returns that we anticipated.
a lot of the 199% that you see there in total
comes from better than anticipated returns as well a gain and loss on investments,
which is really a book entry that by
accounting regulations we have to show the difference between the cost,
where we bought these investments that we hold and the market value of those investments at june 30.
that is where the majority of the increase is coming from, but as well as some insurance claims and some program and special event revenues.
>> the good thing, it's all revenue. >> yes, sir. >> okay. Thank you.
>> any other questions? Thank you.
>> thank you. >> consent agenda. May I have a motion.
>> so moved. >> second. >> I have a motion and a second. All those in favor?
>> aye. >> opposed. Item passes.
tonight, we have two public hearings.
I'm going to declare a conflict on both of them.
although a1, I don't have a legal opinion and I have never met the individual.
I honestly think it would be appropriate for me to declare a conflict
given the situation and so vice mayor,
I will turn the dice over to you. >> thank you, mr. Mayor. Miss mcclary,
could you read item a2 for me? >> item a1.
>> I'm sorry. >> I just want to make sure. >> a1. [laughter] >> item a1, public hearing relating to development.
approving a rezoning of approximately 39 acres of land generally located north of linda vista boulevard and southeast of twin peaks road.
within a portion of section 14, township 12s range 12e,
from r144, single family residential to r4, single family residential.
approving a minor amendment to the marana 2040 general plan, amending the land use category,
applicable to the rezoning area from low density residential, ldr, to traditional neighborhood tn and extending the town of
marana water service area to include the rezoning area.
>> ready. Madam vice mayor, council members.
[noise] last week, tuesday, we received a letter from
the applicant's representative asking for this item to be continued.
also to note, the next item a2 is also requested to be continued.
this item was on the plan commission. Both items were on the plan commission last week.
at that meeting, they were also requesting a continuance. The plan commission did vote unanimously to continue both items.
what that means when we talk about a continuance and the request is this evening to continue the case to a date to be determined,
so it's not a specific date. Because there is not a specific date,
we will have to re-notice the public hearings whenever the applicants decide they want to continue moving forward.
those notices will go out as they did the last time directly to all individuals within 300 feet of the subject property.
they were advertised in the paper, they will also be on our website. Those then we'll start over, basically.
we will go to planning commission first, then we'll come back to council. The reason why it's on this evening's agenda is because
the public hearing notices went out before this request for a continuation was there.
because it is on your agenda this evening, a public hearing is required for us to
hold for anybody that wishes to speak on either one of these items. Once that is done, staff's recommendation to the council is to
continue the linda vista 39 rezoning case to a date to be determined.
with that, I'll be happy to address any questions. Otherwise, as I said, madam vice mayor, we do have to do a public hearing this evening.
>> I'm going to go ahead if anyone has any questions. If not, I'll move ahead.
>> I had a question, please. >> yes, mister. >> jason, do we have any information on why there's a continuance?
are the applicants thinking about changing their building or asking for maybe
some spreading out of some of their homes or reducing the two story homes, anything like that?
are the applicants thinking about doing? >> vice mayor ziegler, councilmember cavanaugh.
the only thing we have from the applicant is in the letter that they've stated, is that they've requested a continuance of
the above reference case to allow for more time to evaluate the plan. They have not shared anything with staff regarding what that evaluation all
entails and they have not represented any change to the plans that are currently on file with us.
>> thank you, jason. >> yes. >> thank you, mr. Cavanaugh.
let's move on to public hearing. >> yes.
>> vice mayor ziegler, I have three cards. >> miss mcclary. Go ahead.
>> the first speaker is randy carr, followed by maria m.
>> good evening, miss vice mayor, members of council. My name is randy carr.
I live at 5853 west oasis road and I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you tonight.
as you know, I'm opposed to the rezoning of linda vista 39 and 13,
it should be left in my opinion as a suburban ranch, maybe r6, r8, something like that.
it doesn't create the strain on the infrastructure.
I would like to think positively about this in the sense that hopefully maybe
mr. Goodman and mr. Post would rethink it and try to work through this.
this has been very difficult, ladies and gentlemen. As I said to you before,
this whole process seems just a little odd and tonight's another one, through another molec wrench into this one.
but you know, for me, on june 3rd, it became crystal clear what was happening to me.
just prior to the council meeting the applicant, dan post,
approached me in a threatening manner right outside these doors of this building.
at the meeting, mayor post, called me to the podium,
attempting to break, belittle and intimidate me because I exercise my right of free speech.
after the meeting, mayor post daughter, maggie approached me in the lobby as well, very upset.
folks this behavior is described as bullying. It's unprofessional.
it's clear the mayor and his family doesn't like me. Well, make no mistake.
the feeling's mutual. Although the town has succeeded in annexing it,
you'll likely succeed in this rezoning when they do it. You have annexed three sides of my neighborhood.
I have no representation and you refuse to annex it, you refuse to annex me.
now maybe you can understand why this is such a painful thing for me.
this is not the stuff we need in the upcoming election. Angry neighbors, it's already gone too far in the sense of,
we're not thinking about each other and what this is doing to each other.
I just wish dan post would have asked his neighbors, "hey, I'm thinking about doing this,
" because we would have probably not been sitting here tonight. But ladies and gentlemen,
now I hope you understand. I'm not going to go away and I'm not going to be bullied, no matter who it is.
ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. Carr. Our next speaker is
maria m. If bill cohen would like to still speak, you'd be up next.
>> good evening. I have lived in this area since 1992,
back when cortaro was a tiny little one lane each way.
>> cortaro is still a mess. I currently live in a neighborhood just off of hartman,
and hartman is now a mess too. It needs to be a lane each way.
it needs to have a left turn lane. The entire length of it, it needs right hand lane turn pull outs. It's dangerous.
I have young people who ride bikes, and there is no safe place on linda vista or hartman to
ride a bike to get to the bus so that they can go to school and work.
I like the post family. I'm friends with the post family,
but I don't like that this little anic or this little rezoning change is taking us from 3.3 acres in
pristine beautiful desert into high density housing with more people crammed in on roads that are already insufficient.
the intersection of linda vista and hartman is not safe already.
it's already backing up in multiple directions during high traffic volume.
times there's no safety corridor for people to walk or to ride a bike on in any of those areas,
and we're cramming more people in. That desert is beautiful. There's no choia in it.
it's gorgeous desert that should be there and should be conserved and should
be able to be enjoyed by all of those who are currently in the area.
in addition to that, there has been nothing brought in by the town in that area for young people.
you put all of these young people packed in tightly, and they're going to get bored.
we know what happens when young people get bored. We're not attracting any of the business into
that mall area that provides family entertainment. There's no dave & busters.
there's no fat cats. There's no main event. There's nothing for our young people to do,
and we keep building tighter and tighter and packing them in tighter and tighter.
they need stuff. We don't need car washes. We don't need self-storage.
we do not need any more rental apartments, or neighborhoods.
leave it, please, as the 3.3 acres, allow people to breathe.
that's why people are attracted to marana. We have breathing room. We want to maintain our breathing room,
and we love our desert. It's gorgeous. We want to maintain it.
I ask you please to reconsider this rezoning. Please leave it as 3.3.
look at how there's pockets in marana that could accommodate tighter building if you want to.
that's not the area to do it. Please bring stuff for our young people, safety and entertainment. Thank you.
>> thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> do we have one more?
>> I have one more speaker card for mr. Cohen, would you like to speak?
>> [inaudible] >> all right. Thank you.
>> declare the public hearing closed.
does anyone on the council have any questions?
hearing none, do I have a motion?
no motions to continue the item? Oh, I'm sorry, council member.
>> I moved to continue the linda 39 rezoning case to a date to be determined.
>> do I have a second? >> second.
>> all those in favor? All those opposed?
>> no. >> looks like it's 42. Thank you.
>> item a2.
>> item a2 I wasn't sure. >> item a2, public hearing relating to development.
approving a rezoning of approximately 13 acres of land generally located north of linda vista boulevard and southeast of twin peaks road,
within a portion of section 14, township 12s range 12e,
from r144 single family residential to r4, single family residential.
approving a minor amendment to the marana 2040 general plan, amending the land use category applicable to
the rezoning area from low density residential ldr, to traditional neighborhood tn,
and extending the town of morano water service area to include the rezoning area.
>> thank you. Mr. Angel. >> madam vice mayor and counsel, as I stated,
this item is also requested to be continued. Same letter was provided by the planning center.
the suggested motion for this one is to continue the linda vista 13 rezoning case to a date to be determined.
once again, because the public hearing was noticed, we do have to allow for the opportunity for
anyone to make comments under the public hearing. >> we're now in public hearing.
do we have any speaker callers, miss mcclary. >> vice mayor, I have one for jenny debra.
>> okay.
>> good evening, council members. As you know, my name is jenny debra,
and I live at 96 85 north linda vista place.
I'm here tonight to respectfully urge you not to approve
the ultra-high density r4 zoning that's currently planned for linda vista 13 and 39.
instead, please require these designs to incorporate lower density,
larger lots, and exclusively single story.
brian underwood with the planning center who represents the applicants,
claims trends now show that buyers want smaller lots.
however, national data and industry studies directly contradict this.
buyers have simply been adapting to the high interest rates that we've had for several years.
they're not abandoning their long term preferences. Since 2021, mortgage rates have more than doubled.
driving a monthly payment on a $400,000 mortgage from 13 and $40 to over $2,300.
with affordability at its lowest level since 1989,
buyers have been forced into lower price points, which usually means smaller lots,
not because they want them, but because that's what their budget demands. A 2023 survey by the national association of home builders found that
almost 65% of buyers would rather compromise on lot size than home size if affordability became an issue.
in other words, square footage is prioritized, not small lots.
pew research reports show nearly 70% of americans would
still prefer homes on larger lots when given the choice.
this is important because interest rates are already falling from
nearly 8% in 2023 down to 6.5% in july of this year,
with further declines expected to continue. Small lot subdivisions are being driven by temporary conditions,
not permanent buyer demand shifts. If we design permanent neighborhoods around short-term market distortions,
we risk creating developments that are out of step with future buyer preferences.
why build something that satisfies only today's affordability squeeze when tomorrow's demand will shift back to the normalcy of larger lots.
this council has both the authority and the responsibility to ensure growth
respects the scale and character of existing owner occupied neighborhoods.
the amh rental community to the west already addresses interim housing needs,
so it makes no sense for an upscale gated development to be patterned after rental housing.
despite this indefinite continuance, as these projects move forward,
I respectfully ask that you, again, please require these designs to incorporate lower density,
larger lots, and only single story. Let's grow in a way that honors marana's own stated vision,
protecting the value and the character of our neighborhoods, and ensuring developments built today still makes sense a decade from now.
thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, miss deray. If we have noma cards,
I'm going to declare the public clearing it's closed.
are there any questions from the council?
none. Okay. Do we have a motion to continue?
>> motion. >> council member, kai are you making a motion?
>> continue, linda, this is a 13 rezoning case to a date to be determined.
>> do I hear a second? >> second. >> all those in favor?
>> aye. >> aye. >> all those oppose? >> no.
>> thank you, jason.
thank you, vice mayor. D1.
>> item d1, relating to development and public works. Update, discussion, and possible direction regarding public and private projects and
development applications on the town's marana current and proposed projects internet site.
>> mr. Angel. >> mr. Mayor. Good evening. As we do the first meeting of every month,
we do a little update on development activity dashboard.
I want to give thanks to staff, the planners, as well as the gis staff for their quick work to get this
updated today with the holiday weekend, and all that. It was a rush today in the office to get things updated,
but I greatly appreciate their efforts. Not too much to update this evening for commercial projects.
we have under review the second hanger for jd russell, as you know,
actually, on the aerial imagery here, this little white building right here is
the existing hangar out at the airport that jd russell has. They're now looking to move forward with building their second hangar out there,
so staff is reviewing that project right now.
nothing new from a residential project standpoint,
as well as land use applications.
commercial permits. We had 10 for the month.
two of them are new buildings, eight of them are remodels. From a business license standpoint,
we have a total of 12 for the month, four are service, three are retail to our contractors,
one online sale, one assisted living, and yes, one restaurant.
this restaurant is the kyrene asian bistro and sushi bar.
this will be going in where borrows pizza used to be down in arizona pavilions,
that'll be the restaurant that moves into that. They just submitted their application.
I would say, a couple of months, depending upon the amount of renovations after going there.
>> what kind of restaurant was that, mr. Angel? > it's asian bistro and sushi.
>> thank you. >> from a residential permit standpoint,
as mr. Rozema had stated, had lower numbers this month, 39 total residential.
if you look at the graph on the bottom here, that is the lowest number we've had for 18 months,
going back to february of 2023, was the last time we had numbers that were below 40 for sfr in a month.
but you can also see that over the last couple of months,
those numbers have been lower. We do anticipate with a number of developments that are
moving forward with dirt work right now. One of them being monarch right behind us has three blocks that will be opening up.
building permits have been issued for model homes to be going up there,
so we'll see homes going vertical behind this campus here shortly.
likewise, over in the mandarina development on the east side of i10,
there's probably about two dozen homes that are under construction right now over there.
>> are you saying you attribute that to inventory?
>> mr. Mayor, I attribute a portion of that to also the available lots that are out there.
dirt ready available lots for builders to move into.
not entirely, though. I will say there are other market conditions that may be driving that.
multi-family, nothing new there. Building permit activity I didn't quite get this up to date,
but the total number of permits are falling in line with what we see typically over the month.
likewise, inspections also, we haven't gotten that one up to all the numbers up to date there,
but we are also seeing about 1,600 inspections for the month.
with that, mr. Mayor, I'll be happy to address any questions that council might have.
>> anybody have any questions for mr. Angel. Thank you, jason.
>> thank you. >> we do not need an executive session, future agenda items.
motion to adjourn? We are adjourned.